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Medicare patients have a 16%
chance of being readmitted to the hospital within 30 days.6

Avoiding death - medical

This Rating is based on the chance that a heart attack, stroke, heart failure, pneumonia, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patient will die within 30 days of being admitted to the hospital.7

Avoiding death - surgical

This Rating is based on how often patients undergoing surgery died in the hospital after developing a serious treatable complication.8

These Ratings were derived from data submitted by hospitals to The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. The Ratings are based on data from the medical records of patients, considered the "gold standard" for quality
measurement. The methods used to derive these Ratings have been endorsed by the National Quality Forum, a nonprofit organization that endorses consensus standards for measuring and publically reporting.